Box Score SALEM - The Roanoke College men's basketball team defeated Goucher College 86-65 to win the 2012 Dick Leftwich V-Foundation Classic on Saturday. The Maroons open the season with their first 4-0 start since the 2007-08 season.

Roanoke and Lynchburg College both went 2-0 splitting the classic championship. This is the 13^th time the Maroons have won the Dick Leftwich V-Foundation Classic, and their first since 2008. Winning the V-Foundation Classic and Equinox Classic is the first back-to-back tournament championships for Roanoke since the 2008-09 season. With defeating Johnson & Wales on Friday and Goucher today, the Maroons pick up their first back-to-back home wins since February 2011.

Kwasi Amponsah led the Maroons for the fourth consecutive game, this time netting 18 points, while going 4-4 from behind the Arc. Amponsah was named MVP for Roanoke's second consecutive tournament, also earning the honor in the Equinox Classic in Philadelphia. He is just 55 points away from scoring his 1,000^th point during his career as a Maroon.

Roanoke's second leading scorer was Alexander Weant, marking career highs in points (15), free throws made (7), rebounds (7) and field goals made (4). Also in double-digits for the Maroons were Andrew Daniels with 12 and Daniel Eacho with 10. Julian Ramirez led all players in the contest in assists, dishing out eight during
the game.

The Maroons outshot the Gophers 41.1 to 31.3 percent from the field and 81.0 to 69.2 percent from the free throw line. Roanoke out rebounded Goucher 55-44 and led in assists 18-8.

The Maroons led for all but 37 seconds in the 40-minute contest. Roanoke jumped out to a 24-11 lead in the first 10 minutes of the game. The Maroons would advance that lead to as many as 26 in the first period as Weant hit a pair of free throws to put Roanoke ahead 52-26 with 1:04 to play.

Weant led Roanoke at half with 11 points, followed by Amponsah with 10. Ramirez tallied four assists in the first 20 minutes of the contest as well.

The story remained the same in the second half, with Roanoke holding around a 20 point lead through the period. Roanoke's largest lead of the game of 27 points came at the 3:45 mark of the second half when Stefan Vulevic hit a layup to put the team up 84-57. Goucher actually outscored the Maroons in the second half, 35-34, but wasn't enough to cut down the large deficit that Roanoke amassed in the first half.

Goucher's Julian Livingston led the team with 13 points, followed by Alex Noble who netted 11. Troy DeShields and Brian Morton II each tallied 10 points. Livingston also led the team in rebounds with seven.

The Maroons return to action on Wednesday, November 28^th as they travel to Virginia Beach to face Virginia Wesleyan in their ODAC home opener. The contest is scheduled for a 7:00 PM tip-off.

Listed below is the 2012 Dick Leftwich V-Foundation Classic All-Tournament Team:

Roanoke College
Kwasi Amponsah - Tournament MVP
Julian Ramirez

Lynchburg College
Manny Hernandez
Austin Chillemi

Goucher College
Richard Harris

Johnson & Wales University
Tom Garrick, Jr.

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